Jeff Francoeur
Jeff Francoeur
Jeffrey Braden Francoeur, nicknamed "Frenchy", is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He has also played for the New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and the Philadelphia Phillies...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1984
CityAtlanta, GA
ahead series swept team win
It's a big win -- no doubt. We don't want to get swept two series in a row, especially by the team that's ahead in our division. Hopefully, this will give us some confidence.
behind believe dugout nobody
When we got behind 8-0, nobody in the dugout could believe it.
guys knock people won
We've won 14 in a row, and people always want to knock you off. You use that as motivation. You don't want to be the guys who lose.
front guys pitcher rather rookie
When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.
great
A lot of us wanted to play for the Braves, ... It's great to be a part of it now and be part of the tradition.
emphasis game
You don't want to look at one game and put too much emphasis on it,
across certainly great neat
This is going to be a neat opportunity. It's going to be great to be able to go out there and have 'USA' across my chest. It's certainly an honor.
bit game highlights watch watched yankees
So we didn't want to watch any -- we watched a little bit of the Yankees game, but we didn't want to watch any highlights of our game or anything.
braves figure second watching
I was just in second grade, and I'm watching the Braves go to the World Series, ... I mean, the World Series! I figure it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
degrees patience pearl plate seem taught
If it weren't for Phillip Wellman I wouldn't be here right now. He's the one who got me going, taught me about patience at the plate and who showed me how to work. You'd go out there some afternoons in Pearl and it would seem like 180 degrees in that cage, but that's what it takes.
field hard man playing sure
He just told me to keep playing hard and make sure that I'm a better man off the field than I am on it,
guy heck might sure swing thinking
He might think, What the heck did that guy just swing at? But he's not going to say it to you when you come back. I'm sure he's thinking it.
I really thought we were going to get it at the end.
guys players rag
I know I'm going to take some jabs from the players for this, ... It's part of the deal. ... Between these guys and my family, they're going to rag me and keep me humble.